a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production
What is Industrial Revolution?
100
A system invented by Samuel Slater which was based on hiring families and dividing work in to simple tasks
What is The Rhode Island System?
100
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel due to new methods of travel.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
100
A man that perfected the telegraph and came up with the Morse code.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse
100
A new source of power for the factories. This power allowed for factories to be built away from water sources.
What is steam power?
200
Cloth items
What are textiles?
200
A system invented by Francis Cabot Lowell which was based on hiring young unmarried women.
What is the Lowell system?
200
A man that tested a full-Sized commercial steamboat called the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
The inventor of the steel plow
Who is John Deere?
200
Cloaks, iron cook stoves, ice boxes, matches and safety pin.
Which inventions made life easier in U.S?
300
An entrepreneur who invented a large spinning machine called the water frame.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
300
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions?
What are Trade Unions?
300
A case where Aaron Ogden sued Thomas Gibbons for operating steamboats in New York waters that Ogden said he owned
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
Invented the mechanical reaper which quickly cut down wheat.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
400
A skilled British mechanic who memorized the designs of the textile mill machines and immigrated to the U.S
Who is Samuel Slater?
400
Protests staged by labor unions?
What are strikes?
400
The inventor of the small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb.
Who is Peter Cooper?
400
An event that led to the wide spread use of the telegraph.
What is the 1844 Democratic National convention In Baltimore?
500
An inventor that gave officials a proposal for mass producing guns for the U.S using water powered machinery. Also came up with the idea of interchangeable parts- parts of a machine that are identical?
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
A women that came up with the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association. She also wrote magazine articles and speeches about working in the mill.